Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

To identify common variants influencing body mass index (BMI), we analyzed genome-wide association data from 16,876 individuals of European descent. After previously reported variants in FTO, the strongest association signal (rs17782313, P = 2.9 x 10(-6)) mapped 188 kb downstream of MC4R (melanocortin-4 receptor), mutations of which are the leading cause of monogenic severe childhood-onset obesity. We confirmed the BMI association in 60,352 adults (per-allele effect = 0.05 Z-score units; P = 2.8 x 10(-15)) and 5,988 children aged 7-11 (0.13 Z-score units; P = 1.5 x 10(-8)). In case-control analyses (n = 10,583), the odds for severe childhood obesity reached 1.30 (P = 8.0 x 10(-11)). Furthermore, we observed overtransmission of the risk allele to obese offspring in 660 families (P (pedigree disequilibrium test average; PDT-avg) = 2.4 x 10(-4)). The SNP location and patterns of phenotypic associations are consistent with effects mediated through altered MC4R function. Our findings establish that common variants near MC4R influence fat mass, weight and obesity risk at the population level and reinforce the need for large-scale data integration to identify variants influencing continuous biomedical traits.     

Constitutional 11p15 abnormalities, including heritable imprinting center mutations, cause nonsyndromic Wilms tumor

Constitutional abnormalities at the imprinted 11p15 growth regulatory region cause syndromes characterized by disordered growth, some of which include a risk of Wilms tumor. We explored their possible contribution to nonsyndromic Wilms tumor and identified constitutional 11p15 abnormalities in genomic lymphocyte DNA from 13 of 437 individuals (3%) with sporadic Wilms tumor without features of growth disorders, including 12% of bilateral cases (P = 0.001) and in one familial Wilms tumor pedigree. No abnormality was detected in 220 controls (P = 0.006). Abnormalities identified included H19 DMR epimutations, uniparental disomy 11p15 and H19 DMR imprinting center mutations (one microinsertion and one microdeletion), thus identifying microinsertion as a new class of imprinting center mutation. Our data identify constitutional 11p15 defects as one of the most common known causes of Wilms tumor, provide mechanistic insights into imprinting disruption and reveal clinically important epigenotype-phenotype associations. The impact on clinical management dictates that constitutional 11p15 analysis should be considered in all individuals with Wilms tumor.     

Study on the REM Model for Group Decision Making

IntroductionAsocialchoicefunctionisamappingwhichassignsanonemptysubsetofthepotentialfeasiblesubsettoeachorderedpairconsistentofapotentialfeasiblesubsetofalternativesandascheduleorprofileofvoters'preferences.Consideranopinionaggregationprobleminwhichagroupofexpertsgivetheirscoresthatexpresstheirpreferencestoasetofalternativesanddesiretocombinetheirscoresintoasingleaggregationpreferenceoverthealternativeset.Theunderlyingideahereisthattheconsensusofnumerousexpertsresultsinasuperiorpreferenceonthe…     

COHERENT, REGULAR AND SIMPLE SYSTEMS IN ZERO DECOMPOSITIONS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS

1.IntroductionWeareconcernedwithalgebraicdifferentialpolynomials(abbreviatedas'd-pcis)inafinitenumberofdifferentialindeterminatesoveradifferentialfieldofcharacteristic0.Givenafinitesetofsuchd-pcis,wewouldliketostudyd-Zero(),thedifferentialalgebraicsetdefinedbyPoverauniversaldifferentialfield.Wemayaskwhetherd-Zero()isempty,whetherad-pcivanishesond-Zero()(differentialradicalidealmembershipproblem),whatthedimensionofd-Zero()is,howtodecomposed-Zero()intoirreduciblealgebraicdifferentialsets,andso…     

METHODS OF ESTIMATION FOR QUASI-INDEPENDENCE IN CONTINGENCY TABLES

1.IntroductionAnUInberofauthorshaveconsideredtheproblemoffittingmodelsofquasi-independencetocontingenCytabledatawhichareeithertriangUlarorhaveanexcludeddiagonal.hithispaperthevariousmethodsproposedforfittingthesemodelsarecompared.ItisthenshoWnthstparameterestimatesarethesamefordifferentmodelsinsomecases.Anew,verysample,easytoimplemeDtalgoritlunispreseDted.Finallysomepreviousiterstivemethodsarecomparedwiththenewmethod.2.Quasi-IndependenceModeisforContingencyamblesSupposethatatwo-waycolltin…     

An Adaptive Identification and Control Scheme Using Radial Basis Function Networks

1.INTaODUCTIONThemultilayerfeedforwardneuralnetworks(MFNN)hasbeenwidelyappliedinmanyfieldssuchaspatternrecognition,nonlinearoptimization,systemidentificationandcontrol.Thesimpleback-propagation(BP)learningalgorithmisusuallyadoptedtoupdateitsweights.TheBPalgorithm,however,suffersdrawbacksofslowconvergenceandunpredictablesolutionsduringlearning.Althoughmailyapproachessuchasvariablestepsize,conjugategradient,pseudo-Newtonmethods[4]andothermethods[3,10],havebeendevelopedtoovercometheproble…     

Truncating mutations in the Fanconi anemia J gene BRIP1 are low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility alleles

We identified constitutional truncating mutations of the BRCA1-interacting helicase BRIP1 in 9/1,212 individuals with breast cancer from BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation-negative families but in only 2/2,081 controls (P = 0.0030), and we estimate that BRIP1 mutations confer a relative risk of breast cancer of 2.0 (95% confidence interval = 1.2-3.2, P = 0.012). Biallelic BRIP1 mutations were recently shown to cause Fanconi anemia complementation group J. Thus, inactivating truncating mutations of BRIP1, similar to those in BRCA2, cause Fanconi anemia in biallelic carriers and confer susceptibility to breast cancer in monoallelic carriers.     

剑桥导游太阳系

本书以最新的视角描述了行星和月亮。开始用短短的篇幅介绍行星的观测和发现历史，然后介绍行星及其卫星的共同特点、演化过程和状况。在各章节中讲述各个行星和太阳系其它天体，包括新近的多种空间任务，从阿波罗探月到近期的木星和火星探测。书中充满了至关重要的事实和信息，以及极其精美的彩色照片。     

Algorithm of graph isomorphism with threedimensional DNA graph structures

ResearchonDNAcomputingwasinitializedin1994 ,whenAdleman[1] proposedamethodofsolvingasmallinstanceoftheHamiltonianPathproblembyalaboratoryexperimentinvolvingDNAmolecules .Later,Lipton[2 ] demonstratedhowalargeclassofNP completeproblemscouldbesolvedbyencodingtheprobleminDNAmolecules .Inparticular ,LiptonshowedonefamousNP problem ,theso called“satisfiability”problem (SAT)andsubsequentlytheotherNP problemscouldbeencodedandsolvedusingmolecules .TheadvantagesofDNAcomputingareitsmassivepa…